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Tag	Description	Stories	Filtering
compsci
ai	Developing artificial intelligence, machine learning. Tag AI usage only with `vibecoding`.	2,800	367
compsci	Other computer science/programming	4,098	86
distributed	Distributed systems	2,918	86
formalmethods	Formal methods	1,413	153
graphics	Graphics programming	2,535	143
networking	Networking	3,736	79
osdev	Operating system design and development when no specific OS tag exists	1,361	52
plt	Programming language theory, types, design	3,364	79
programming	Use when every tag or no specific tag applies	16,550	55
culture
culture	Technical communities and culture \| hotness mod -0.25	4,049	160
law	Law, patents, and licensing	1,663	191
person	Stories about particular persons	1,141	129
philosophy	Philosophy	1,244	144
field
cogsci	Cognitive Science	402	177
cryptography	Cryptography	1,776	89
education	Education	845	70
finance	Finance and economics	516	184
hardware	Hardware	7,132	90
math	Mathematics	2,986	141
science	It's "Science"	1,307	102
format
ask	Ask Lobsters	2,471	75
audio	Link to audio (podcast, interview)	409	171
book	Link to a book (not an ad or review)	1,011	62
pdf	Link to a PDF document	4,955	73
show	Show Lobsters / Projects	2,076	57
slides	Slide deck	531	89
transcript	Includes transcript of audio or video	132	41
video	Link to a video	5,101	192
genre
art	Art	1,051	127
event	Events, conferences, and meetups	853	107
historical	History and retrospectives (not for things that happen to be old)	4,557	73
job	Employment/Internship opportunities	240	171
rant	Rants and raves \| hotness mod -0.25	1,395	193
release	Software releases and announcements	5,456	81
satire	Satire, parody, and other humor \| hotness mod -0.25	864	184
interaction
a11y	accessibility, assistive technology, standards	433	87
design	Visual design	1,909	116
visualization	Data visualization	1,125	96
languages
apl	Array Programming Languages such as APL, J, and K	279	178
assembly	Assembly programming	1,388	229
c	C programming	3,583	172
c++	C++ programming	2,592	162
clojure	Clojure programming	793	195
concatenative	stackbased languages like Forth, Factor, Joy	43	44
css	Cascading Style Sheets	784	152
d	D programming	102	202
dotnet	C#, F#, .NET programming	855	425
elixir	Elixir programming	788	259
elm	Elm programming	259	249
erlang	Erlang development	772	283
fortran	Fortran programming	69	235
gleam	Strongly-typed BEAM language	112	65
go	Golang programming	3,507	224
haskell	Haskell programming	2,329	303
java	Java programming	1,225	328
javascript	Javascript programming	5,193	235
kotlin	Kotlin programming	118	111
lisp	Lisp and Scheme programming	2,130	269
logiclangs	Prolog, Datalog, Z3, Picat, miniKanren, ASP etc. using clauses	33	18
lua	Lua programming	403	235
ml	MetaLanguage, OCaml programming	797	239
nodejs	Node.js programming	544	216
objectivec	Objective-C programming	74	239
perl	Perl programming	313	279
php	PHP programming	423	419
python	Python programming	4,242	201
ruby	Ruby programming	2,558	333
rust	Rust programming	5,167	242
scala	Scala programming	455	342
swift	Swift programming	567	301
zig	Zig programming	547	112
lobsters
announce	Site anouncement \| hotness mod +1.0	50
interview	Lobsters interviews	26
meta	Lobsters-related bikeshedding - report bugs at https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters \| hotness mod -0.25	741	1,385
os
android	Android	917	269
dragonflybsd	DragonFly BSD	81	158
freebsd	FreeBSD	1,377	252
illumos	illumos	105	156
ios	Apple iOS	1,049	263
linux	Linux	6,366	79
mac	Apple macOS	1,675	195
netbsd	NetBSD	670	191
nix	package manager, distribution, and related systems like guix	689	146
openbsd	OpenBSD	1,519	240
unix	*nix	2,881	70
windows	Windows	1,452	336
platforms
browsers	Web browsers	2,174	99
email	e-mail	344	34
games	Game design and study	2,815	165
merkle-trees	And related similar data structures. Not business/scam news.	781	306
mobile	Mobile app/web development	982	152
retrocomputing	Reproductions, emulators, and other revivals of historic technologies	425	36
wasm	webassembly	658	73
web	Web development and news	8,902	117
practices
api	API development/implementation	1,623	75
debugging	Debugging techniques	1,247	37
devops	DevOps	3,306	142
performance	Performance and optimization	3,611	25
practices	Development and team practices	8,263	88
privacy	Privacy	2,401	77
reversing	Reverse engineering	1,826	113
scaling	Scaling and architecture	1,010	87
security	Netsec, appsec, and infosec	12,199	85
testing	Software testing	1,670	67
virtualization	Virtualization	941	98
tools
compilers	Compiler design	2,870	111
databases	Databases (SQL, NoSQL)	4,746	99
editors	Code editors and IDEs without a specific tag	167	8
emacs	Emacs editor	838	378
systemd	Linux systemd	229	140
vcs	Git, Mercurial, Perforce, Subversion, Jujutsu and other version control systems	1,734	75
vibecoding	Using AI/LLM, coding tools. Don't also tag with `ai`.	2,931	673
vim	Vim editor	550	191
vscode	Visual Studio Code editor	16	77